Kioxia LC6 Series Enterprise NVMe SSD 30.72TB (PCIe 4.0, QLC)

The Kioxia LC6 Series is a high-capacity enterprise NVMe SSD engineered for read-intensive and warm storage workloads that demand maximum density at scale. Built on Kioxia's BiCS FLASH QLC (quad-level cell) 3D NAND technology and interfacing via a PCIe 4.0 x4 host connection with the NVMe 1.4 protocol, the LC6 delivers substantially higher usable capacity per drive slot compared to TLC alternatives, making it well-suited for hyperscale and cloud-adjacent deployments where storage density and total footprint reduction are primary design objectives. The 30.72 TB model (KLC6XVUG30T7) represents the highest capacity point in the LC6 lineup, housed in a standard 2.5-inch U.2 (SFF-8639) form factor.

The LC6 Series targets read-dominant workloads where sequential and random read performance are critical but write intensity remains moderate, consistent with warm data tiers, content repositories, and large-scale analytics datasets. Kioxia's enterprise firmware stack incorporates multi-stream write handling, advanced error correction, and end-to-end data path protection to maintain data integrity across the drive's operational life. Power loss protection circuitry safeguards in-flight data during unexpected power events, a standard requirement for enterprise-grade deployments.

As a purpose-built warm-tier SSD, the LC6 30.72TB enables organizations to consolidate large spinning-disk arrays into a significantly smaller NVMe-attached flash footprint, reducing rack space, power draw, and operational complexity without sacrificing the low-latency access characteristics inherent to NVMe flash. The drive is positioned within Kioxia's enterprise portfolio alongside TLC-based offerings, allowing architects to tier storage workloads appropriately — directing latency-sensitive hot data to higher-endurance TLC drives while placing bulk warm data on the LC6's high-density QLC platform.

Ideal for

• Warm data tier consolidation replacing high-density HDD arrays in hyperscale data centers with NVMe flash to reduce latency and physical footprint
• Large-scale content delivery and media repositories requiring sustained sequential read throughput across multi-petabyte datasets
• Enterprise data lake and analytics platforms where bulk dataset ingestion and read-heavy query workloads benefit from high-capacity, low-latency NVMe storage
• Backup-to-disk target acceleration and secondary storage tiers in enterprise backup and recovery architectures
• Archival-adjacent object storage nodes where high per-drive capacity minimizes drive count and simplifies scale-out storage cluster management
• AI and machine learning training data staging where large datasets must be held in high-capacity flash for repeated sequential read access during model training cycles

Technical specifications

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